Category Archives: Education

ComicPromote has been formed in order “to promote the readership of comic books in schools and educational programs.” It sound like a worthy cause to me.

The Berklee School of Music has a found a new use for file-sharing: helping to teach future musicians.

If you are creating a presentation or teaching something, it would be great if you could use a reserved generic website. Maybe something like example.com?

“The computer is the worst offender: College and high school students sit at their machines e-mailing and instant messaging without proofreading, revising or giving much thought to what they have written. The errors then continue to be circulated and repeated by others until finally everyone on the Internet has become illiterate, replacing proper English with Internet slang. Unfortunately for these students, their bosses will not be ‘lol’ when they read a report that lacks proper punctuation and grammar, has numerous misspellings, various made-up words, and silly acronyms.” – Silvio Laccetti and Scott Molsk

I went to a presentation once (actually, I beleive it was May of 1998) that involved a product that would connect parents and teachers via the web. Seeing as how this was a region of the county where many parents didn’t have telephones, the principals in the audience were somewhat less than enthusiastic. While many things have changed in the last five years, I am not sure whether parents are ready to monitor schools assignments via the web. There are some possible solutions out there, but I am not sure that things have reached the tipping pooint.

Are keyboards killing cursive? A very interesting article, which brings up a lot of issues. For myself, I write very little in cursive these days because what skills I had deteriorated over the years trying to keep up with college professors.

If you had to choose between having a full-time school librarian or a family consumer science teacher, which would you choose? I am betting that your answer might be different from the one that Lou Reste, Principal of North Andover Middle School, made.

New University of South Florida Logo One time as an undergrad (way back in 1991), I so much wanted a copy of the USF logo for a project I was working on. I never did come up with something satisfactory. These days, you can get one in any design you like .

The Bridges program from Crossgen, that I wrote about in March , is getting a lot of main stream attention from School Library Journal and Better Homes & Gardens.

A teacher in Scotland became quiet upset when one of her students turned in an assignment written in the language of SMS. But I am not convinced that there is anything to worry about–yet.